Re: 2.6.19-rc1: kexec broken on x86_64

From: Vivek Goyal
Date: Thu Oct 05 2006 - 09:46:18 EST


On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 07:28:35PM +0900, Magnus Damm wrote:
> Kexec is broken on x86_64 under 2.6.19-rc1.
>
> Or rather - kexec works ok under 2.6.19-rc1, but something related to
> the vmlinux format has probably changed and kexec-tools fails to load
> a vmlinux from 2.6.19-rc1.
>
> Loading bzImage works as usual, but vmlinux does not load properly.
>
> The kexec binary fails with the following message:
>
> Overlapping memory segments at 0x351000
> sort_segments failed
> / #
>

Hi Magnus,

Can you please post the readelf -l output of the vmlinux you are trying
to load. That's will give some indication if the segments are really
overlapping in vmlinux or is it some processing bug at kexec-tools part.

Thanks
Vivek
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